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Wait, if this doesn't pass they'll cancel Paul Allen's SLU streetcar entirely ? So tempting.
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Hey, who cares if cutting bus lines means more cars on the road? It's not like Seattle has any traffic jams brought on by too many cars and not enough transit infrastructure.

Once the bus cuts are in place, the oil companies will be in a perfect position to raise gasoline prices another dollar/gallon.
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What's scary: charts from King County scooterists and motorcyclists showing that their tabs > moto insurance > annual 2-wheel moto vehicle fuel cost

Personal example: $205.75 tabs > $203 insurance > $85 gas.
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The sky is falling!
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Looking forward to all the suburbanites wondering why their commute takes twice as long and they have to walk 4 blocks in the rain after we urbanites take all the parking spots - and the parents pay overtime fees at daycare from the delays
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So after these “devastating cuts” my neighborhood goes from having NO frequent transit to… having NO frequent transit. And that should encourage me to vote how why?
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And… after the “devastating cuts” I get a street car to first hill (linking where I work with where I drink) which I don’t get without the “devastating cuts”???

Put me in the pro “devastating cuts” camp please.
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your links are broken, try linking to the page rather than deep linking to the map ( so he can get accurate page counts as well as ads. )
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@7 Yes, because it's all about you. More "we" and less "me", please.
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So. Given the choice between paying more money for less service (no First Hill Street Car), and paying less money for more service (Yeah! First Hill Street Car!), I should vote against my best interests because your interests (as part of the “we”) are more important? And I should do this knowing full well that it’s perfectly possible to commute by bus on a daily basis WITHOUT “Frequent Service”??? (My neighborhood has no “Frequent Service” and yet I still manage to get to and from work every day by bus).
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Bus riders need to start paying their own way. Automobile owners already subsidize the bus riders too much as it is.
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http://metro.kingcounty.gov/am/future/PD…

So, the 0.1% sales tax would expire in 10 years, the $60 TBD registration fee won't have a set expiration and they could still re-instate the $20 councilmanic TBD fee on top of that in the future ? And they have no hard definition down of what will be their "low income" qualifier or process for claiming such.

http://cloud3.wsbcdn.com/blog/wp-content…
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@10

The streetcar will be happening either way. It's already paid for as part of the same Sound Transit package giving us U-Link (which is under construction).
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@10 You get the streetcar with or without the service cuts.

What you're going to get with the service cuts is an overcrowded street car that's sitting in traffic because more and more people are forced into their car when they used to take the bus. The cuts might not affect your commute directly but when they force others to make choices that leads to more traffic, its going to end up shafting you too.
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Or the busses that do run might just be more full...
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FINALLY!!! Seattle can experience the same transit system as Spokane!!!

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Facebook won't allow me to post this link; somebody should tell them to recreate this off dropbox so others can share.
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I wonder if it failed would they "find the money" like they did for the baseball stadium?
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@15 or the bus is so full that they can't let on more passengers which already happens regularly on my bus.
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@ 15/19 - Ditto for my bus. My commuter bus already leaves people stranded sometimes, is always standing room only. Even if my route is unaffected, all the routes around it will be cut back and there absolutely won't be enough space. Some of those people will drive rather than risk the bus skipping their stop twice a week. Traffic will get worse. No doubt. And, in the end, that will cost us more money than we saved by defunding transit. Transit is one of those great things were it is cheaper to spend money on it than to not.

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